Copyright & DMCA

Doctor Games respects copyright. If material on one of our services infringes a work you own or represent, tell us and we will act on it expeditiously.

Last updated: 27 July 2026 · Contact: dmca@doctor-games.com

Services covered by this policy

Doctor Games — the studio and everything it publishes;
Rhythm Guru — the mobile game, including community-created (UGC) beatmaps;
doctor-games.com — this website;
ugc.doctor-games.com — the domain that serves community-uploaded audio, cover art and beatmap files.

Designated Agent for copyright notices

Teimur Buniat, Designated Agent, Doctor Games

Email: dmca@doctor-games.com
Telephone: +971 58 563 1093

Registered with the U.S. Copyright Office DMCA Designated Agent Directory, Registration No. DMCA-1076564 — verify in the public directory.

Email is the fastest route and the one we monitor. Notices sent to our general support address are forwarded to the agent, but that adds a delay — write to dmca@doctor-games.com directly.

How to send a takedown notice

Send a written notice to the designated agent above. To be effective under 17 U.S.C. §512(c)(3), your notice must include substantially all of the following:

A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed — or, if a single notice covers multiple works at one site, a representative list of those works.
Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed or disabled, with information reasonably sufficient to let us locate it. For Rhythm Guru, the most useful identifiers are the map ID or map link, the track title and artist, and the author's in-game name.
Contact information for you — address, telephone number, and email address if available — so we can reach you.
A statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
A statement that the information in the notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

A notice missing these elements may not put us on notice under the statute, and we may come back to you asking for the missing pieces before we can act.

Please note that under §512(f) a person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material is infringing may be liable for damages, including costs and attorneys' fees.

What we do when a valid notice arrives

On receipt of a notice that substantially complies with §512(c)(3), we act expeditiously to remove or disable access to the material identified. In practice, for Rhythm Guru community content that means:

the map is set to Removed and disappears from the Community catalogue and from search;
its audio, cover and beatmap files are moved out of public delivery, so the ugc.doctor-games.com links stop resolving;
the map's audio fingerprint is added to a blocklist, so the same material cannot simply be re-uploaded (staydown);
the author is notified in-app that the map was removed at the request of a rights holder;
the removal is logged, and a strike is recorded against the account that uploaded it.

We keep official, licensed catalogue content and community uploads strictly separate. A notice about a community map affects that map, not the licensed catalogue.

Repeat infringer policy

We maintain and reasonably implement a policy for terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of subscribers and account holders who are repeat infringers.

Each removal made in response to a valid takedown notice is recorded as a strike against the uploading account.
A strike is withdrawn if the material is restored following a valid counter-notification, or if we determine the notice was not valid.
An account that accumulates three strikes loses the ability to publish community content and is subject to termination.
Regardless of strike count, we may suspend or terminate an account immediately for flagrant or repeated infringement, or where a court so orders.
Terminated accounts may not create new accounts to continue publishing; we treat circumvention as a further ground for termination.

Counter-notification

If your material was removed and you believe the removal was a mistake or a misidentification, you may send a counter-notification under 17 U.S.C. §512(g)(3) to the designated agent above. It must include:

your physical or electronic signature;
identification of the material removed and the location where it appeared before removal;
a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief the material was removed as a result of mistake or misidentification;
your name, address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the U.S. federal district court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or, if your address is outside the United States, of any judicial district in which we may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the complaining party or its agent.

We forward valid counter-notifications to the complaining party. If they do not notify us that they have filed a court action seeking to restrain the activity, we may restore the material in 10 to 14 business days.

Other complaints

Trademark, publicity, privacy and other non-copyright complaints, and reports of inappropriate content, go to contact-us@doctor-games.com. In the app, the ⋯ menu on any community map has a Report action that reaches us directly.